I guess Jeremy never said it explicitly but I (and probably lots of others) assumed Yahoo Finance used MySQL in the delivery of data, but it’s only used in the back-office which is a lot different!
Where I work, Tradesignals.com, uses MySQL to store our market data and it’s obviously used to deliver data. Then again, the Futures stock market is a lot smaller than the range of data Yahoo offers. While I can’t reveal how much data we go through, American futures trading generate a lot of information!
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Galeon 1.2.9 out!
Looks like Galeon 1.2.9 is out! The 1.2.x branch is the Gnome 2.0 version so should be a lot easier to get working!
A Digital Sunset Over Europe and Africa
Beautiful photograph of the sun setting over Europe. (literally!)
b2 web-based installer/configurater
I’ve just finished work on a web based installer for b2. It should make it much easier to install b2-smarty.
All you’ll have to do is copy the files from the tarball to where you want b2 to live, and point your browser at install.php there. It’ll present you with a simple form to fill out and then configure the server for you!
After some testing I should have another release out shortly with this and the editor updates mentioned below.
The average age of the military man is 19 years.
That may be so and according to a newspaper article I read yesterday they’re paid around $1000 a month. Many of their families are the ones at the soup tents around major barracks. They’re also not likely to be white and middle/upper-class. God keep you safe in Iraq and return you home!
Cut them, do they not bleed?
Browsing weblogs.com I found this rant about the media treatment of the war.
I just heard a journalist on CNN chuckle as he described the overwhelming strength of an air strike. Are they insane? How would Americans react if a foreign nation chuckled over the blitzkreig bombing of Chicago or New York?
I watched the 6pm news yesterday and saw a hospital in Iraq. A child sat crying on his bed while 2 photographers snapped photos of the bawling invalid. Collateral Damage indeed.
CamWorld, caching?
Has Cam restored his old site? Or is my ISP caching a really old version? If I ever needed proof that Esat have an invisible proxy this is it..
Edit in 2025: camworld . com is now a porn site. This is what it looked like a few years after I posted this, when it was still a blog.
BBC – Search Results For public nudity pictures
Hehe. See the extract the BBC published from this page. It’s slightly misleading!
… Hmm, so I’m the top link for “public nudity” among Irish websites eh? … phone to the pub and upload the pictures to a screen for immediate viewing by everyone …
The Mother of All Spamkillers
Cringely lays out another plan for stopping spam. He wants people to verify they’re legitimate by replying to a confirmation email the first time they email a new person. Sorry Bob, but it’s been done already, take a look at TMDA – Tagged Message Delivery Agent.
Personally I rely on Spam Assassin, and despite difficulties in the last few days, it keeps my inbox 99% spam free!
Nokia 7650 demo!
At THE ALTERNATIVE PARTY this year a Java demo made an appearance running on the Nokia 7650! Take a look at the results page and search for the text “7650” to find it . Must look f or a download and check it out!